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From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: Add comment explaining task state setting in bdi_forker_thread()
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 20:44:11 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110905124411.GA794@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110905100141.GA5466@quack.suse.cz>

On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 06:01:41PM +0800, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Sun 04-09-11 11:05:51, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> > > @@ -401,6 +401,13 @@ static int bdi_forker_thread(void *ptr)
> > >  		}
> > >  
> > >  		spin_lock_bh(&bdi_lock);
> > > +		/*
> > > +		 * In the following loop we are going to check whether we have
> > > +		 * some work to do without any synchronization with tasks
> > > +		 * waking us up to do work for them. So we have to set task
> > > +		 * state already here so that we don't miss wakeups coming
> > 
> > s/already/early/ ?
>   Thanks for review. We'd have to substitute 'already here' with 'early'
> for the sentence to make make sense. But frankly I don't see why one would
> be better than the other one...

You are the native English speaker?  OK, I have no more problems... ;)

Thanks,
Fengguang

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-05 12:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-02 22:54 [PATCH 0/2 v3] Small cleanup of bdi_forker_thread() Jan Kara
2011-09-02 22:54 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: Cleanup clearing of BDI_pending bit in bdi_forker_thread() Jan Kara
2011-09-04  3:04   ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04  4:13     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-05 10:06       ` Jan Kara
2011-09-05 12:50         ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-02 22:54 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: Add comment explaining task state setting " Jan Kara
2011-09-04  3:05   ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-05 10:01     ` Jan Kara
2011-09-05 12:44       ` Wu Fengguang [this message]
2011-09-05 15:53         ` Jan Kara
2011-09-07 22:19           ` Andrew Morton
2011-09-08  0:29             ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-02 23:07 ` [PATCH 0/2 v3] Small cleanup of bdi_forker_thread() Jens Axboe
2011-09-02 23:12   ` Jan Kara
2011-09-02 23:16     ` Jens Axboe

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